- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✖ Not legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Single only
- DiscriminationIllegal in some contexts
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment DiscriminationN/A
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
(since 1995)
(since 1995)
Legal
Current status
Legal, but requires surgery
Moldovan law allows for legal gender change only after ‘change of sex’. So far this has been interpreted as biological / surgical change of sex. In 2011, four individuals had successfully changed gender in law in Moldova since independence. After biological / surgical change of sex, the Moldovan Ministry of Information and Technology will issue a certificate stating that the person has changed sex. With this certificate it is possible to change all other official documents (passport, birth certificate, ID card etc).
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2013)
(since Jan 1, 2013)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Current status
N/A
Even if the Constitution of Moldova provides anti-discrimination laws, these are not applied in everyday life.
Current status
Legal
Gays and lesbians allowed to serve.
Current status
(since 2002)
(since 2002)
Equal
Current status
Banned (indefinite deferral)
The Moldovan legislation bans MSMs from donating blood due to high risk of transmitting STDs.
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- Tighina
- Gagauzia, Unitatea teritoriala autonoma (UTAG) (Autonomous Territorial Unit)
- Stînga Nistrului, unitatea teritoriala din (Territorial Unit)
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